03595nam a2200445 a 4500 0717206439 AU-EpEBC 20130221114954.0 ta 090727s2010 enk b 001 0 eng d 9780334041924 (pbk.) 0334041929 (pbk.) (UK-WkNB)9780334041924 (StEdALDL)1/2355006 (UkOxU)17206439 UkLCURL UK-WkNB eng UK-WkNB c 230/BET EW Between truth and fiction : a reader in literature and Christian theology / edited by David Jasper and Allen Smith. Between truth & fiction. London, UK : SCM Press, 2010. x, 179 p. ; pbk ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Literary theology -- Colossians 1.15-20 -- On Christian teaching / Augustine of Hippo -- The interior castle / Teresa of Avila -- An essay on the development of Christian doctrine / John Henry Newman -- The seven story mountain / Thomas Merton. 2. Fiction -- Luke 10.29-37 (The parable of the Good Samaritan) -- The golden legend : readings on the saints / Jacobus de Voragine -- Moby-Dick, or the white whale / Herman Melville -- Monsignor Quixote / Graham Greene -- The handmaid's tale / Margaret Atwood. 3. Autobiography -- 2 Corinthians 11.22-31 -- The confessions / Augustine of Hippo -- Vita brevis : a letter to St. Augustine / Jostein Gaarder -- Revelations of divine love / Julian of Norwich -- A heartbreaking work of staggering genius / Dave Eggers. 4. Lyric, poetry and songs -- Song of Songs 8.6-7, 10-14 -- 1 Corinthians 13 -- 'Love (III)' / George Herbert -- 'The joy of church fellowship rightly attended' / Edward Taylor -- 'Poetry' / Marianne Moore. 5. Drama -- 1 Corinthians 11.20-26 -- An Easter resurrection play / Ethelwold -- Henry V / William Shakespeare -- Uncle Vania / Anton Chekhov -- Our town / Thornton Wilder -- Waiting for Godot / Samuel Beckett. 6. Essays and aphorisms -- Ecclesiastes 1.1-11 -- 'The translators to the reader' / The King James Bible (1611) -- 'Of truth' / Francis, Lord Bacon -- 'Solitude' / Henry David Thoreau -- 'Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote' / Jorge Luis Borges. 7. Sermons -- Acts of the Apostles 2.14-38 -- 'Funeral oration for his sister Gorgonia' / Gregory of Nazianzus -- 'Sinners in the hands of an angry God' / Jonathan Edwards -- 'A grasp of the hand' / Austin Farrer -- 'I have a dream' / Martin Luther King Jr. 8. Post-colonial literature -- Psalm 137 -- The curse of Cain : the violent legacy of monotheism / Regina M. Schwartz -- Midnight's children / Salman Rushdie -- 'Oral history' / Nadine Gordimer -- Devil on the cross / Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o -- 'Arrival of the snake woman' / Olive Senior. 9. Feminist literature -- John 20.1-18 -- The wild girl / Michèle Roberts -- The woman's Bible part II / Phebe A. Hanaford -- A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf -- 'Song' / Adrienne Rich. 10. Postmodern text -- Revelation 5.1-5, 10.9-10 -- The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy / Laurence Sterne -- Erring : a postmodern a/theology / Mark C. Taylor -- A brief history of time / Stephen Hawking -- Landscape painted with tea / Milorad Pavić. Religion in literature. Jasper, David, ed. Smith, Allen Permar. ed. ddc 2392 2392 0 0 ddc 0 0 230 Theology MAIN MAIN OS 2007-08-30 manna4theworld via Amazon Marketplace 29.71 0 230/BET 12399 2015-03-25 00:00:00 1 60.00 2007-08-30 AM